Well at least I got a picture of it!
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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is: 0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!) 1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.) 2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor. 3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they? :confused: So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key! :sigh: Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely! :( I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over! :laugh: Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is: 0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!) 1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.) 2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor. 3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they? :confused: So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key! :sigh: Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely! :( I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over! :laugh: Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is: 0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!) 1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.) 2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor. 3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they? :confused: So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key! :sigh: Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely! :( I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over! :laugh: Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
It is free for a reason… I hope you did not feed it the entire string! Always send it in chunks and hold back a few chars. Kind of like a few email domains that accept ANYTHING you send them. Xxx@noemail.com might be one. Free password generators, always add a few more characters. If it is free, you are the target/product/?
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After a 2 month long wait, I finally received information from another software provider's tech team regarding access to a common client's data via their cloud-based API. I have to say, I am impressed with how secure the process was/is: 0: receive invite email with a link to onetimesecret.com. There are several warnings that this is a one-shot deal. (don't screw it up!) 1: click that link and get a strange looking 100+ character string inside a panel that absolutely refuses to let me copy the message text. (careful: we will only show it once.) 2: frustrated at not being able to select/copy the message and fearful that viewing the source might screw the whole thing up, I simply grabbed a screenshot and have it opened in my favorite image editor. 3: the only other option is to reply with another secret. I don't know what else to do here, so go for it. This winds up being a waste of time creating a made up secret message wondering if it might finally reveal some kind of human readable or at least selectable text...I mean, they don't actually expect me to key in a 128 character alphanumeric string by hand do they? :confused: So yeah, I have a screen capture of a jumbled up mess of letters (upper and lower) and numbers which I must now transcribe into Notepad which will serve as my API key! :sigh: Now that's security! Oh yeah, I should save this image of my key somewhere just in case my transcription skills are off by a bit, which is highly likely! :( I suppose there might be an OCR solution, but it would take longer to figure that out vs. just zooming it out and highlighting chunks of 7-8 at a time and just getting it done! Rant over! :laugh: Edit: OK, a quick search found ocr2edit.com which did a decent job for free. This just saved me a fair amount of time/effort. :thumbsup:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
Do you have the desktop version of OneNote? The "copy text from image" option sometimes works. :-D
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
